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I don't know a lick of C/C++ and I found the add delta method in <10min after poking around the memcached GitHub repo. I feel confident I could complete this challenge in 3hrs, or at the very least make a strong attempt.

I think it's a good question because it heavily indexes on strong engineering fundamentals. Searching a codebase, reading code, understanding behaviour, modifying an existing codebase, blending your solution in, etc. Every strong engineer I know is very good at the things required to complete this task.




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